The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14
Notes and Opinions.

IT isn't the quantity but the quality
of immigration against which protest is
made. -Iribme.
THE democratic paper at Concord,
N. H., calls the Grand Army an I'M
mitigated nuisance"
TIE Rochester Union, Cleveland
paper, unfeelingly alludes to "the
humbuggery of so-called civil service
REFORM
Nor only the civil service law, but
the entire subject of civil service re-
form, was ignored by the Pennsyl-
vania democratic convention.
AT the republican primary at Platts-
burgh, n. Y, the other evening, one
republican favored Robert T. Lincoln,
but aside from this the sentiment was
unanimous for James G. Blaine.
THE President is profoundly dis
trusted by those who have fought their
country's battles from Gettysburg and
Antietam to Shiloh and Vicksburg.
This is a fact of momentous signifi-
cance.-Ne,o York Tribune.
THE New York Tribune, though not
sporting paper, suggests that perhaps
the best way to get rid of the hostile
Indians would be to teach them how to
play baseball and then leave the work
of determination to themselves.
EVERY old free-trade crank in the
country is coming TO Ohio this fall to
engage in the democratic campaign,
and soon the music of a thousand
shrieking grind-stones will begin
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE Grand Army men do all they
can to avoid politics. When they see
democratic campaign banner hung
out, with portrait of the next demo-
cratic candidate for president, they
march around it.-Chicogo Journal
THE Rev. Heman Lincoln says: l." If
single grain of the charity so
lavishly bestowed by the mugwumps
upon President Cleveland had been
shown to Mr.. Blaine the independent
party would never have been born"
CANNED goods may be high next
winter, as many cannery-owners are
predicting, but it is just as well to re-
member that California is canning the
biggest fruit crop on record this year,
and freights are cheap across the con-
| tinent.
THE New York Times says that /" the
venerable affirmation - that all men are
created equal is not and never was
true. The way the Times would put ii
is that few men are created superior to
every one else, and they are the mug
wumps. -Philadelohia Ne,cs.
THIS Christian and patriotic remark
is from the New Orleans Picayune, a
democratic paper: " Probably not a
single useless citizen, professional poll
tician or loud-mouthed Grand Army OF
the Republic partisan was killed at the
Illinois railroad massacre of human
beings"
The American microscopes are il
session at Pittsburg. Wonderful i'm.
provements have been made in mag
nifying instruments, but none of then
are yet powerful enough to bring GU
the fine details of civil service reform
under a democratic administration
Detroit Tribune
BOILED down, the policy of the reve
nue. reformer seems to be to give tn,
English manufacturer a better chanc,
in our own markets and force Ameri
can manufacturers to run amuck 70
outside trade. This is all right for En-
gland but bad for America. We propos
to hold our own.-BOSton Traveller.
IT is a singular fact that iron bridge
have given the worst railroad accident
and killed more people than woodel
bridges. 1t is not the material of whicl
bridges are constructed that gives safet
so much as sound construction, prope
{ maintenance and efficient and frequen
inspections by competent persons
Concord Monitor.
, A TELEGRAM from Little Rock re
ports that "intense excitement pre-
walls in the southwestern part of lie
noke county over rumored negro ur
rising" This will no doubt be fo
lowed in few days by dispatch stat
ing that the "negro uprising" has W
rose and that fifteen negroes have bee
| killed and one white man slightly in
jured. -NorristOlO Herald.
THE National Republican is a thor
g in the flesh to Secretary Fairchilt
5 whose financial operations it overhaul
vigorously. 1t charges that the secre
n tary, in the purchase of S2, 1886 400 wort
9 of registered bonds and 100000 cou